Only if they don’t also encourage drone warfare. The US used to be quite isolationist, but the capacity to kill people at zero risk somehow mysteriously morphed into the need to regularly assassinate people. Military targets inside countries we are at war with is one thing, but drones strikes are not nearly so limited.
You could argue that we were isolationist until we became the dominant world power. I wouldn’t say we’ve been isolationist since WWII— well before drones.
Honestly, you could argue that we’ve rarely been isolationist. We attacked Native American nations, then took over bits of the pacific, etc. We’ve been at war in some form or fashion for nearly all of our history.
I’m mostly libertarian and mostly pacifist, so I hope we change, but I’m not holding my breath.
The MQM-57 Falconer for example was doing battlefield reconnoissance in 1955. But, it’s far to say attaching weapon systems to drones rather than using the drone its self as a weapon was more recent.
